The IR remote is great, but a radio control would be even cooler! Further distances, and less direct aim required. Currently, the way my receiver head is set up, I have to be next to my driver's side passenger door to get a good angle.

Anyone see Top Gear last week? They were showing that if you put your R/C keyfob to the side of your head you actually increased the range! They've had scientists looking into it apparently, but haven't yet come up with an explanation! It's true tho - try it...!

I mean a resonable explanation for real-life senarios is that by raising it to head level you're keeping it away from other electronics... watches, cell phones, beepers, PDA's, and although not hugely significant, it can effect range. as almost every electronic device in america states according to the FCC... (FCC Class A Notice This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
1. This device may not cause harmful interference. 2. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.)

now i don't deny the presence of ambient brainwaves, but i have no ideal about their effect on electronic devices... although i know some people (at least according to our news reports) can shatter light bulbs at the thought... and I have had computer customers who just seem to have an extremely higher tendecy for blown hardware (motherboards and such)

Ive got a customer on the contract side of the empire who actualy asked one of his customers to do this trick with a transmitter he supplied that wasnt working needless to say he didnt get any more orders

It might open your car door at a 100yards but it probably makes you sterile.

Definition of a yard for the Comprhensively challenged is a "a sensible unit of measurement pre dating Eurob*******"

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when you stick anything that radiates RF energey close to the body, the body acts like a reflector, mainly due to the water content, where people say that rf energy can cause brain damaage, thats just the tip of the iceburg, RF energy can kill, how do u think a microwave oven works, its RF energy,,

bit of a true story:

A guy wors at a radar instalation when its cold at nights he used to sit infront of the horn,(used to send out radio waves for radar) as this made him warm, one really cold night and after a few beers to many, he sat infront of the horn again, but somebody didnt realise he was there, and turned up the power a bit, as the weather was effecting the radar,
Back to the guy sat infront of the horn, he was nice and warm and fell asleep, the following day they found him cooked to death, he was cooked like he hadbeen stuck in a microwave oven...

Sorry the post was a bit long, but i guess it willmake u think next time u stick your mobile near your head....

The story of radar cooking some guy is a wive's tale, but it's had its fair share of rounds in the halls of many a university EE department, military complex, or research facility. Granted, too much time in front of one will give you some nasty tumors in the long run, but you'd have a really sick feeling if it was strong enough to cook. It's a fun story, but nonetheless not true. Even the US army/navy/air force have some "incident reports" from years past that initially claim such accidents occured, but further investigation showed other issues were involved.

Now, on to why it works (and there's no need for studies to be made, as the effects are easily understood). It's not due to your body being a better reflector due to water content, either... if anything, water will tend to absorb a significant amount of radiation. Try watching satellite TV during a nasty rainstorm, some loss of signal due to reflection/scattering, some loss due to absorbtion.

Our body acts like one huge capacitor, which affects the center frequency and power at which any radiating element transmits. In fact, when designing a hendheld remote, you need to take the body's effects into account when figuring the antenna dimensions and transmit power. Until you remember this fact, you're going to be banging your head against the workbench trying to figure out why the remote works flawlessly when it's on the bench, but put it in your hand and... nothing. Same goes for vice versa... it seems to work great in your hand, but go to have the FCC (what's the European equivalent again?) test the item, and it falls flat on its face (all because they test it by itself sitting on a workbench).

Wrapping up a long diatribe... the keyfob remotes work better at times when placed next to you head as they can sometimes bring the transmitter back to the spec it has slowly wandered from, due to heat/cold, low battery, poor adjustment from the factory, etc. Don't forget, too, that many times the remote power has to be detuned to allow passing FCC rules and regs... in some ways, by placing it to your head and increasing the output power, you're breaking the law

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